APAture 2002 : Artists

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Lenora Lee : Dance

Photo by: Kieran Ridge & Hiromi Oda, 2001.

Bio

Lenora Lee received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Los Angeles specializing in Dance: Choreography and Performance. She has had the pleasure of dancing for Eclipse Dance Theater, Unbound Spirit, and has presented her own work in various national and international productions. In the last year, she has toured Los Angeles, Chicago, Massachusetts, New York, and Seoul, Korea presenting choreographed and improvised works of movement and sound with percussionist, Jimmy Biala. In the spring of 2001, she directed a collaborative multidisciplinary concert entitled (f)Roots of the Blood Orange Tree, which was held at SomArts Cultural Center.

Lenora is Co-Artistic Director of San Francisco's Red Jade Collective, which produces experimental multidisciplinary performances fusing elements of Jazz, West African, Cuban, Brazilian, American Indian, Japanese, and Filipino music traditions with American modern dance and improvisation. The work focuses on the organic integration of music and dance, and the representation of the unique mixture of cultures in the Bay Area. Support from CASH, a grants program of Theatre Bay Area, in partnership with Dancers' Group has made it possible for her to create a new collaborative work with the Red Jade Collective, to be telecast this summer on Public Access Cable Channel 29 as part of its 58:30 Live Series, a program on social justice, arts and culture. Her piece, Altered Depth of Perception, is dedicated to Bronson Lee.

Artist Statement

Sending the self off to drift, in search of this pathway towards truth, compassion, and connection. This dance involves the complex struggle between normality and transcendence, between complacency and yearning, between contentment and the search.

"Altered Depth of Perception"

Stories of Love, Death, Tragedy and Transformation told through Movement and Sound by Lenora Lee and Jimmy Biala. Vulnerability. At any given instant your world can turn upside down, and you are left kneeling amongst the falling ashes. Who is left to pick up the pieces of this broken foundation? Created and performed by choreographer/dancer Lenora Lee and percussionist Jimmy Biala. Dedicated to Bronson Lee

Links

Theater of Yugen: Asian American Dance Performance